Wolfgang Staehle

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Wolfgang Staehle (* 1950 in Stuttgart ) is a German artist . He lives and works in New York .

He studied at the Freie Kunsthochschule Stuttgart and the School of Visual Arts in New York in the USA . He has been working with video sculptures since the late 1980s. At the beginning of the 1990s he founded the Internet platform The Thing in New York , and since then he has mainly been doing network-related work.

The pictures from September 11, 2001

Wolfgang Staehle became known primarily for his recordings of the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001 on the World Trade Center . For the period from September 6th to October 6th, he planned an installation in New York's “Postmasters Gallery”. He installed three webcams , one in a monastery near Stuttgart , one on Berlin's Alexanderplatz and one in New York. The images produced by the webcams every five seconds were to be projected in real time onto screens in the “Postmasters Gallery”. The World Trade Center was almost in the center of the image taken by the New York camera. The operators and visitors of the gallery experienced the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 live.

Wolfgang Staehle did not make the images of the attack available to the mass media and took them over to his archive. They were shown for the first time during the exhibition “Ce qui arrive” organized by Paul Virilio at the Fondation Cartier pour lart contemporain in Paris . The exhibition focused on unpredictable accidents and disasters that cause horror in the high-tech world.

In 2005, the Hartware MedienKunstVerein in the Phoenixhalle showed the calm, almost still pictures that were taken a week after the attacks. Only the lack of the twin towers of the World Trade Center and the time and date shown indicate the proximity to the event .

Exhibitions

  • Kassel, documenta 10 , June 21 - September 28, 1997
  • Bremen, Kunsthalle Bremen , 11 August - 30 September 1990
  • Kassel, Museum Fridericianum, 7 October - 16 December 1990
  • New York, Postmasters Gallery, September 6 - October 6, 2001
  • Paris, Ce qui arrive , Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain, November 29, 2002 - March 30, 2003
  • Karlsruhe, Temporal values ​​- from Minimal to Video , ZKM, December 20, 2003 - April 18, 2004
  • Dortmund, about the disappearance. World losses and escapes , Phoenix Halle, August 27 - October 30, 2005

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personal data
SURNAME Staehle, Wolfgang
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German artist
DATE OF BIRTH 1950
PLACE OF BIRTH Stuttgart